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In response to "well, sort of, but i could walk around the world (well, you know) and be heading west the entire time. -- nm" by Elf Andie

Irrelevent. The question has to do to with where you're farthest away from where you started? Once you start getting closer, you're not longer at the

Posted by mara Dec 9 '09, 07:37

farthest point. Doesn't matter if you're still traveling the same direction.

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what if someone is born at the South Pole (which has happened)? how do you determine the furthest east/west they ever traveled? -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:40 15
- It's just interesting that north/south are absolute constructs, but east/west are relative constructs. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:42 7
  - but there is still an absolute upper limit on the distance from your starting point, as opposed to "distance travelled", in either direction. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:45 5
    - There is no room for interpretation on the question of north/south, but you need more information to answer the question of east/west. - Dano Dec 9, 07:52 4
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        Math is philosophy. What is zero? -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 08:00 1
        
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        That's like saying that the mobius strip is unremarkable. :P -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 08:00
  - that's why we have those two arbitrary meridians. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:43
- They can't travel east or west at all, can they? Is this a trick question? -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:41 5
  - and the entire point of my original conundrum -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:43 3
    - Why? Were any of us born that close to a pole? -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:51 1
      - You need more info to answer east/west. You need no more info to answer north/south. - Dano Dec 9, 07:56
    - another oddity is that in antarctica, you can walk a few miles and go very far east or west, whereas at the equator it might take thousands of miles. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:45
  - of course it's a trick question! -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:42
- I hereby exempt such persons from having to answer this poll. :) - znufrii Dec 9, 07:41

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